Those shortcomings found in remote “desk audits” of 166 covered entities and 41 business associates are still often cited by the Department of Health and Human Services in its Office for Civil Rights’ ...

While The HHS Office for Civil Rights recently announced its intent to perform a second round of HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach audits via an email initiated ...

Six months in, 2016 already is a record-breaking year for HIPAA enforcement actions from the Health and Human Services Department's Office for Civil Rights, reports HealthcareInfoSecurity.com. The ...

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights’ audit program was too narrow in scope to effectively assess data protections and reduce cyber risks in the healthcare sector, according to the report. The report, ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

OCR's Deven McGraw spoke at last week's HIPAA summit. Federal regulators will start remote HIPAA compliance "desk audits" for business associates in November. And more comprehensive onsite audits of ...

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has released a report that contains the details of the upcoming round two of its HIPAA compliance audit program. OCR auditors will access entity HIPAA compliance efforts ...

HHS' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has rolled out phase 2 of its HIPAA audit program to assess compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification ...

Edge Hosting, a national provider of secure, scalable and dependable managed hosting services, today announced the culmination of annual auditing against the Security Rule of The Health Insurance ...

The Office of Management and Budget released the final Fiduciary or Conflict of Interest regulation and related prohibited transaction exemption modifications from its review today. The next step will ...